I would like to convert some videos for travelling and to view them with the N900 default video player. Mplayer and VLC support the main profile and play those videos, but they are not optimized for mobile usage, and battery drains faster.

The files I'm after are the 28c3 recordings which can be downloaded at http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/28C3/mp4-h264-LQ/.

They are encoded in H264 Main 3.0 Profile, according to this wiki page the n900 only supports Baseline 3.0 encoded stuff.



I don't have much experience with reencoding/conversation, just used virtualdub in the past and installed avidemux.
Can anybody give me some tips what would be the fastest/best way to reencode a bunch of H.264 Main Videos to Baseline 3.0? Any suggestions on software for linux or windows? Is it possible to use a HD5850 for conversion?

Thanks,
Conrad


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Edit: Found a N900-preset for avidemux on the wiki, will go with it for some tests.

Update: File gets bigger after reencode, from 80 Mb to 104 Mb and now shows Baseline 2.1.


Would be nice to get Baseline 3.0, maybe the compression is better.
Hints are welcome


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update: Changed bitrate to 281 Kbps, file is now 81 Mb.